Phrase often attributed to 'Moors Murderer' ian brady, but actually taken from a notebook by David Smith. Smith was brother-in-law to Brady's girlfriend myra hindley, the husband of her sister Maureen.

Although Myra disliked Smith, he and Brady got very close, with Brady lending Smith books about torture and murder - a mutual interest - and boasting about having murdered several children. Smith did not believe this, until Hindley and Brady made him a witness to one of these murders. Smith's phone call to police on October 7, 1965 led to the final arrest of the Moors Murderers. At the trial, Smith testified as a principal witness, as did Maureen. While on remand, Brady and Hindley exchanged a message in code which read 'Smith will die and Maureen too'.

When The Daily Telegraph published lines from Smith's notebook in december 2005, Brady complained about the quotations being attributed to him. The paper published a correction.

The lines published read:

[people] breed the way one man tells them to breed. They live by laws that were made thousands of years ago, and they fear the God they are taught is kind and loving. Perversion is the way a man thinks, the way he feels, the way he lives. People are like maggots. Small, blind, worthless fish bait. Rape is not a crime, it’s a state of mind, murder is a hobby and a supreme pleasure. God is a discease [sic], a plague, a weight around a man’s neck, a discease which eats away his instincts, God is a superstition…They are merely machines repeating and listening to what the masters feed them. You are your own master. You live for one thing, supreme pleasure in everything you do. Sadism is the supreme pleasure!

Today, Smith lives in the Republic of Ireland. He runs a bed and breakfast hotel.